Rusty Triumphs in Scotland

[SiC]

Runlock is one brand
https://www.standbyrsg.co.uk/products/run-lock-2

Mentions ambulances use it for refrigeration and such. Plausible that yours had a fridge in the back?
https://amber-valley.com/run-lock-systems-explained/

They'd probably need it for the lights and radios too. Especially on a fast responder vehicle where the crew will jump out and need to call back regularly thus leaving the radio on.

[captain_70s]

The Acclaim's handbrake wasn't working properly.

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Fuck me I hate winter.

The adjuster seemed to have very little real effect, going from locking the wheel solid constantly to having hardly any stopping power at all. Pulling the handbrake cable also caused the whole lever mechanism to jump back and forth with a "clang". Something isn't right there at all, but without pulling the other side apart for reference I wasn't going to find out what. That's a job to be attempted during daylight, in the dry...

The shoes had plenty of meat on them but were oddly scored and seemed to have worn weirdly. Gone a bit crumbly. Given that was the side that was binding when I boiled the brake fluid driving it to it's first post-resto MOT I imagine the heat has caused them to go funny.

Threw it all back together and sent it to the MOT station with the expectation of a fail.

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That'll do. It actually has less advisories than last year, despite my having attended to none of them... To be fair the car has only actually done 3,000 miles between MOTs. A far cry from the 10-15k it was doing before...

I took it to a new build estate to devalue some homes to celebrate.

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The missing fog light is in the boot, it came lose and I haven't gotten around to reattaching it. I do have some 3d printed covers for them though...

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The Volvo was used to haul me up to the parent's place over Christmas, in convoy some of the way with Subpar.

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Since then it's been sat around mostly as it'd badly worn the outside edges of the front tyres over the course of the trip. The NLA heater blower motor is also in an advanced state of failure. Nature threw a tree at it, but it didn't seem to care.

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I deposited it at the my local garage for a 1.5 month early "pre-MOT" to give myself to time to work on any potential issues.

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The washers are blocked, I need to pull and clean the tank as it's full of shit. Driver's seat is just stiff, needs cleaning/oiling. Rear door not opening is a weird one, the central locking doesn't work on that door for some reason. Welding is the holes I'd previously poked in the floors and chassis rail. Bloke said he couldn't make holes anywhere else.

Having been assured it's not about to be condemned I now plan to spend some money on it to make it less shit.

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[captain_70s]

Update!

Volvo:

Interior out, again.

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To get at this:

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Away to the workshop for a weekend of chopping and welding... After a cheeky jump...

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With the car rendered solid the other MOT issues were tackled. Seat runners were cleaned and oiled while they were out solving the driver's seat that didn't want to move.
Rear door not opening due to the central locking not working on it was just explained to the tester and he unlocked it from inside first before opening from outside.

The windscreen washers being clogged meant I went digging for the tank under the airbox.

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Looks not too bad...

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Ah. It bad.

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Fixed. The pressure release valve that sits between the two nozzles was also jammed open.

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This was replaced with a standard T piece stolen from the headlamp wipers. Speaking of which...

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Sacrilege! Heresy!

Yes I deleted the headlamp wipers. Only one motor ran and both plastic clip things that hold the blades on are broken. So they're entirely non-functional.

As a bonus I found a random wire attached to nothing kicking about under the washer bottle which seemed to be part of the factory loom. Attaching this to an earth caused the previously senile lights to start working properly.

While I was in the area I also took the sound deadening off the bonnet because something had built a nest in it so it needed a clean out.

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I then went to take it to the MOT station. Except it wouldn't start.

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Boom. Fuckers mint. Except it pisses water into the front footwells at a rate of knots and the water pump pulley is half of a second from launching itself into a low earth orbit as the bearing has collapsed.

A high tech leak testing system was developed at my mate's place.

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Took the scuttle off, cleared a load of shit out of it. Took the wing off, couldn't get at anything so that was a waste of time. Water is getting in through the sunroof, around the windscreen and through the fresh air vents in the A pillars which are broken and can't be closed.

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Ah, lovely. A missing trim clip replaced with sealant.

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Ah, lovely. It's trapped water and rotted the screen surround.

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Ah, lovely. A bodge because fuck pulling the screen.

Pounded a load of Sikaflex into the screen surround. One bead along where the old seal meets the glass and another between the old seal and the surround itself.

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Maybe it'll stop some water ingress. Probably not. The fresh air vents will get the same treatment. It's currently being used as a shed because petrol is expensive and the water pump pulley jumping about gives me The Fear.

Also some dunce drove into it at some point and took a chunk out the bumper. Cunt.

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[captain_70s]

Acclaim:

Continues being my most functional car. Keeps losing it's idle. Radiator is fucked and I need to drive with the heater at max all the time or it'll cook itself.

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I took it to Largs one weekend and somebody liked it so much they left a note on it say as such. Probably this bloke:

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Current plan is to bodge a Triumph Herald rad into it...

Where it is usually parked on my street people keep opening their doors into it. Cunts.

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[captain_70s]

Dolomite:

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This has been on hold for yonks. Over a year actually.

It's been me and GingerNutzz over on t'beige working on it at his garage. After the Acclaim he had the '66 Galaxie in for work, which overran by months as it transpired to be completely rotten. I had a new job with longer hours and there was no point in prepping the Dolly for paint during winter... Then just as we were planning to start back on it an '07 Mustang came in for some pulling of dents on the rear arches and a blow in paint job down the sides and turned out to be the Titanic. So a 5 day turn around became over a month of welding.

The Dolly has been sat in a neighbour's driveway under a car cover for most of that time despite being pretty much ready for paint prep. Anyway, I booked a week off work with the concept of firing into the car for a few days straight and getting it suitable for driving and outside storage.

Back in the garage.

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Thankfully the welding was all done.

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Oh.

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Fucking thing. No evidence at all aside from a small bubble on the inside of the A pillar. They all go here, I should have expected it to be honest.

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O/S looked fine but I smacked a hole in it with the pointy hammer, so it too was welded up.

There was also a bit more work needing to be done to the O/S sill.

Then application of filler and scuffing back of paint for a primer base commenced along with pulling the last of the trims, clips and door hardware.

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The dent I put in the rear panel and associated bow in the bootlid were also rectified.

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Sills, front valance and underside of bonnet/bootlid are stonechipped.

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Then the door checks, backs of the doors and bonnet see the first of the new top coat.

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Then we both got COVID. YAY.

With nothing much else to do I scrubbed down the door cards.

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Really the vinyl is so faded it could do with being re-dyed and the door cards on the O/S side have both suffered from damp. The glue is failing across the board. Regardless they look presentable enough and are free of major damage.

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[paulplom]

You have the patience of a saint. Well done.

[Drum]

Great work Captain

[Hooli]

Impressive amount of work there.

[LynehamHerc]

What these guys say.

Please don't interpret this in the wrong way but given the drive and determination you've shown here I suspect that you're wasted in your current job.

[Tam]

Acclaim:

Continues being my most functional car. Keeps losing it's idle. Radiator is fucked and I need to drive with the heater at max all the time or it'll cook itself.

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I took it to Largs one weekend and somebody liked it so much they left a note on it say as such. Probably this bloke:

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Current plan is to bodge a Triumph Herald rad into it...

Where it is usually parked on my street people keep opening their doors into it. Cunts.

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If you want to meet the man himself

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